Malcolm's house at Oyster Cove

Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Could be a world first


The image on the left is the result of running a Rocksolver simulation using data corresponding to 5 real rocks. The right-hand image is the real structure built by following the packing plan devised by Rocksolver. This could be the first time a new structure has been built from irregular objects following instructions from a computer program. It's possible some old structures have been re-built following the output from archaeological reconstruction software. The software required to simulate the rebuilding of an old structure is quite different to that required to simulate the building of a new structure so I'm happy to say it's a first.
The packing plan in the image came from my first desk-top simulation, even before the packing algorithm parameters had been optimised so things will only get better from here on.